Newsmaker of the Week

By EARL KRAUSE Wall Township, NJ — Before a wheel can turn at Wall Stadium Speedway this year, a non-racing problem has the start of the 73rd season at the high-banked third-mile paved oval on hold. The delay is due to an unexpected environmental testing requirement given to the owners of the property. Since 2011, the Krause family has leased …

It’s unusual for a race car driver to win a big race in their first start of the season. Yet that’s what happened twice this past weekend. At Lincoln Speedway, Rico Abreu, making his first World Of Outlaws 410 Sprint start of 2023, swept to victory before a packed grandstand of cheering fans. Sixty miles to the north on the …

Fast Freddie Rahmer put on a driving clinic in Saturday afternoon’s Lincoln Speedway 410 Sprint Car feature. He came up from a 15th place start in the 30-lapper and moved into second late in the race with arch-rival Danny Dietrich ahead. With a dramatic bid for the win, Rahmer moved by ‘Double D’ and on to the checkered flag. The …

The fastest driver at the East Coast Dirt Nationals from the first lap of practice through the waving of the checkered flag on lap 50 of the A Main was Tim Buckwalter. Buckwalter thought he may have lost it all when he tangled and spun out 15 laps into the race. He was furious. But he quickly regained his composure …

To say that Ronnie Silk was long overdue for a NASCAR Whelen Modified Touring Series victory is to say it right. On Saturday night at New Smyrna Speedway in Florida, Silk seized the moment late in the race to establish himself as the leader, then hold on with determination when Justin Bonsignore threatened to upset his victory bid. At one …

Promoter Brett Deyo’s racing empire is ever-widening. The creator of the Short Track Super Series who owns and operates Georgetown Speedway, and runs the races at Fonda and Utica-Rome Speedways in New York, has now taken over the promotion of Delaware International Speedway. Deyo, who recently signed with NASCAR to sanction racing at his three tracks, has brought the sanctioning …

Anthony Sesely’s weekend of triumph inside Atlantic City, NJ’s Boardwalk Hall included a big victory in the climactic Saturday night TQ Midget feature. In the process, Sesely became the first four-time winner of the NAPA Auto Parts Gambler’s Classic. In earning the 2023 Indoor Auto Racing Series Fueled By VP Race Fuels TQ Championship, it was Sesely’s rush from a tenth row starting …

The 2023 PPB Motorsports Show last weekend in Oaks, PA was the scene for the stunning announcement by Ricky Grosso that he has gained control of the operation of New Egypt Speedway. In so doing, Grosso will be returning to the track his family built 25 years ago and where his son Brandon won the 2022 Modified track championship. Grosso intends …

The 2023 Chili Bowl has been run. Six days of non-stop Midget racing produced a young Chili Bowl A Main winner in Logan Seavey, a popular winning car ownership team in Kevin Swindell and Tim Bertrand, a huge prelim win for upstart Hank Davis and the New England based Seymour Racing Team, and a drive from 23rd to ninth in the …

Anthony Sesely drove to victory Saturday night in the PPL Center Indoor Auto Racing Series TQ A Main, taking charge of a dramatic event that featured wheel to wheel action throughout. Sesely, who has been known for embracing a ‘clean-sheet-of-paper’ approach to race car design, teamed up with upstate New Yorkers Jeff Ulrich and Ricky Kluth a year ago to build a …